Manage your alert rules in the Azure portal, or using the CLI or PowerShell.Learn how to enable recommended alert rules. Learn about Azure Monitor alerts, alert rules, action processing rules, and action groups, and how they work together to monitor your system. This article explains how to create a new Azure Monitor log search alert rule or edit an existing rule.

Understanding the Context

How alert policies work Here's a quick overview of how alert policies work and the alerts that are triggers when user or admin activity matches the conditions of an alert policy. An admin in your organization creates, configures, and turns on an alert policy by using the Alert policies page in the compliance portal or the Microsoft Defender portal. This article shows you how to create a new metric alert rule or edit an existing metric alert rule. To learn more about alerts, see the alerts overview.

Key Insights

You create an alert rule by combining the resources to be monitored, the monitoring data from the resource, and the conditions that you want to trigger the alert. You can then define action groups and alert processing rules to determine what ... The alerts page summarizes all alert instances in all your Azure resources generated in the last 30 days and allows you to manage your alert instances. The common alert schema standardizes the consumption experience for alert notifications in Azure. Historically, activity log, metric, and log search alerts each had their own email templates and webhook schemas.

Final Thoughts

The common alert schema provides one standardized schema for all alert notifications. A standardized schema can help you minimize the number of integrations, which simplifies the ...